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Digital Antiquarian Explores WC4
The Digital Antiquarian has completed his long-awaited analysis of Wing Commander 4. He started digging into the series way back in 2017 and covered the first couple of games in a series of articles.... Join Us On Discord!
The Wing Commander CIC Discord server has been a busy place lately! A lot of stories that end up here at WCNews.com start as discussions in our Discord channel #Wingnut. If you want to see how the s... Tri-System Artifact Explained
AD was doing some digital deep diving into Privateer 2's code and managed to extract this tantalizing menu image. It's a lot different than the game's own menus, PAD interface or anything else in the... Reflections on St. Helens
Today marks forty years since the eruption of Mount St. Helens. On May 18, 1980, the ground shook and thick ash rained across the Pacific Northwest. Hundreds of square miles of forest were wiped out... Space Sim First Look: Between the Stars
It's been quite a while since we regularly covered new space sims as they were introduced, but the industry has still been hard at work putting them together. We're going to try to get back into shar... Comparing P2's Ship Seller Before & After
Check out this pre-release screenshot from Privateer 2 that AD discovered and compare it to one from the final game. The UI isn't as developed, ship icons are in color, BUY/SELL is named TRANS-ACT...... Wing Commander Meme of the Day: Brace Yourselves X is Coming
Lots of bugs
... End Run Still Coming
Good news for patient Wing Commander eBook readers: the ebook re-release of Wing Commander: End Run (Book #2) is still in the works. In response to an inquiry, Baen replied via Twitter:
It's in pro... Vintage Videos Visit WC3 & P2 Film Shoots
FMVStory has posted a couple of really cool set visits for Wing Commander 3 and Privateer 2. The clips come from Bad Influence, a '90s show that covered tech items and video games. A lot of people a... Hari Sector Scans Reveal Gigantic Menace
There are several great new updates to the Homeworld mod. For starters, the incredibly massive Kilrathi dreadnought has been implemented. All of its turrets are also individually targetable when it'... WC Music Campaign Ends This Week
The campaign to extend the live orchestra Wing Commander music album is entering the home stretch. Fans have until Wednesday evening to contribute and claim either their digital or autographed copies... A Little Austin Adventure with LOAF
I'm back in Austin visiting LOAF this week, and here's a tiny peek at our exploits. First things first, we hit up three vintage game stores and scored some WC merchandise at each one! It's always so... Strike Commander Gains OS X Compatibility
Good Old Games has added Macintosh support for ten more games, and this latest batch includes Strike Commander! This is good news for fans of classic Origin games, but it doesn't stop here. Fill... Wing Commander Saga Download Reminder
If you haven't yet downloaded the long-awaited fan game, now is as good a time as any to get your hands on a copy! The Windows installer weighs in at a hefty 3.4 gigabytes, so we recommend some kind o... Straight From the Fat Man Himself
Famous Wing Commander musician The Fat Man George Sanger was recently asked to answer some interview questions for a Russian gaming magazine. Rather than reply to the email, he posted an amusing vide... Hostile Frontier Shaken Up
Here's some Hornet and afterburner shots from Kevin Caccamo's Landreich-themed mod of WC Saga, Hostile Frontier. The engine exhaust color was tweaked to look more "realistic." I'm not too sure that ... Happy Birthday alt.games.wing-commander!
The CIC is has a happy anniversary to celebrate today! The old alt.games.wing-commander Usenet newsgroup turns 15 years old! We picked May 18 as its birthday many years ago, although the exact date ... Standoff To Get Graphics Boost
The fifth and final episode of Standoff is slated for release on August 10th. There have been steady progress reports as the project nears completion. Here is Eder with this week's update:
More p... Making the Game: Series I Overview
Series I is the game's final Kilrah sequence, ending with Blair's sacrifice at the wormhole gate. Sorry -- no indication as to if Blair was supposed to survive...
These updates are thanks to John "... Excalibur Joins the Lego Fleet
Deacan's spotted another nifty Lego Wing Commander model. This time it's an Excalibur rendered in LDraw that was virtually created by Big Jim. Although a physical mockup hasn't yet been done, the sh... Making the Game - Part 13
The May 24, 1996 Component Manager Meeting agenda has an interesting list of writers considered for Wing Commander V. The choices are interesting - several are unknown and several others are best know... BREAKING NEWS: All the Ships Revealed
TeamXbox has scored a real coup - a massive article comparing and contrasting all eighteen of Wing Commander Arena's ships! We now know their exact loadouts, specifications and some background histor... BREAKING NEWS: A Different Kind of Interview
Noted freelancer Paul Semel has interviewed Wing Commander Arena Producer Sean Penney for a story in his videogame blog at Riottt. This article is especially cool because it's a lot less formal than ... This Presentation Is Spot On
Matt Clothier has a great Wing Commander Arena story for us: GameSpot's weekly video show, On the Spot, included a presentation about Arena! In the process they managed to reveal the last unknown play... Forstchen, Live On Tour
Want to meet Dr. William Forstchen, author and co-author of six Wing Commander novels? I'm telling you, you do! He's currently in the middle of a book signing with Newt Gingrich for his new historical... Larger Battles Tested In WCP Online
Progress continues to be made with HCL's Prophecy Multiplayer Patch. The coding has improved to the point where standard rounds with a few players have been consistently stable. New tests with six p... On This Day...
Today is the 11th birthday for the alt.games.wing-commander newsgroup. Although it's been pretty quiet for several years now, throughout the later 1990s, it and Origin's Official WC CZ formed... Flight Commander Gets Engine Upgrade
Following on from the news about progressing Linux support, eddieb has released news of what upgrades Flight Commander with receive in its upcoming 1.1 patch. There are a lot of changes to the game an... Happy Birthday Kris!
The CIC's lead graphics person/programmer/procrastinator KrisV turns 24 years old today! That's very nearly old age. You can wish him a happy birthday by emailing him. There is one other big anniversa... That New Movie
Star Wars Episode III gets a global launch tomorrow, and early indications are that it is going to be great. Lots of WC fans are waiting for this one. In fact LOAF is already waiting in line along wit... Commissar Providing Slick WCA DVD Package
Crius.net poster Commissar has taken our high res Wing Commander Academy television show episodes and made a DVD set with them. He's invested a lot of time with this project and is offering to duplic... Electronic Arts CEO Conducting Interviews
EA CEO and Chairman Larry Probst has conducted a few interviews to coincide with last week's E3. They're somewhat helpful to get a feel for where the company is going and what got it to its current s... They Do Exist! Prophecy in the Wild
Chris Reid is back from the E3. He's busy catching up on work and such, but should have a full report (including, possibly, a video!) later today. Until then, here's nine photos he took of the Destina... Home Sweet CIC
Whew, it's great to be back. E3 was incredible, but trips are always tiring. There's so much going on at the expo it's difficult to absorb. Sorry I couldn't snap some focused shots of the Prophecy ... Happy Birthday, Kris!
KrisV, the guy who keeps the CIC running when everyone else is too stupid to, turns twenty-two today! You can e-mail him here to let him know how you feel. So... Merry Krismas to all, and to all a goo... WCPolaroids: Stiletto (7/8)
They say this cat Stiletto is a bad mother...
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I'm talkin' 'bout Stiletto.
THEN WE CAN DIG IT!
... Joan's Fighting Spacecraft
LOAF recently tracked down the July, 1991 issue of Computing Gaming World. It includes new specifications and drawings for spacecraft that were in Secret Missions.
... Happy Birthday, Kris!
Today is CIC staffer KrisV's 21st birthday. I would write something about how that makes him legal drinking age, but since he isn't American, he's already been able to do that for years. You may wish ... Happy Birthday, Kris!
Here's a very important update we missed -- it's CIC staff member KrisV's 20th birthday! We couldn't do it without you, Kris... we love you, man. (Morning updates will be delayed so y'all will see thi... Happy Birthday, NewsGroup!
It's also worth pointing out that today is alt.games.wing-commander's sixth birthday -- the venerable newsgroup turns six years old. Which is, of course, about as many posts it gets a month now...... SWC Character of the Day: Shotglass
Belly on up, friend, and take a load off. You must be Maverick. I'm Shotglass. Welcome aboard the Claw. Used to be a pilot myself... ...till the fleabags shot me up so bad I couldn't fly. I guess I fl... Meet the Maniac
Tom Wilson -- Maniac in Wing Commander 3, 4 and Prophecy -- will be appearing at the Shreveport Hollywood Expo and Toy Show on June 30th-July 1st. He'll be signing autographs at the BTTF.com booth! Yo... Jumpgate -- IN THREE-DEE! (Oh)
Jumpgate has a publisher -- and it's 3DO! The game publisher, known to most viewers as the company that produced a Wing Commander supported platform years ago, will release the Privateer-esque MMP gam... Notable Developer Sites on the Move
Several hundred people have been caught in the ether recently while trying to access the Wing Commander Development Center. Maverick let us know that the site is currently now set up at its new home ... One of Those Days
May 18 is the twenty year anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington, after which the St. Helens of Wing Commander 4 was named. It's also Kris' nineteenth birthday and the fifth anni... It's Quality and Quantity
We don't have an SL reference handy today, but Avault has a review of X: Beyond the Frontier posted. In the facts area they officially class it as very similar to Privateer 2 and make references to t... New Factory Opens on Hermes
Financial commentator Tony Knox reports. The opening of a new multi-purpose manufacturing plant has made Hermes into a hive of activity. Hundreds of immigrants are arriving daily, looking for work, cl... Half a Million
I'd like to congratulate the rest of the staff on hitting the noble 500,000 hits mark. Good going, people!... SETI@Home
Brendan Johnson asks that we update about the new SETI@Home screensaver, which allows you to use your computer to help examine data from the radio telescope. Grab yours here and let's get some advance... VideoCD?
It's the visual version of the 8-track, and ten to one odds are that it's slightly very illegal, but VCD Paradise is selling Wing Commander on VCD. At $7, it may be something to experiment with before... Fourth
Just a quick happy fourth to alt.games.wing-commander -- official slogan, being a newsgroup since four years ago. Kris is also four today, so wish him a happy birthday.... My Obutu!
You want to buy an Obutu? I'm telling you, you do! Unfortunately there's a snowballs chance in hell of X-Toys ever producing such an obscure character -- so do the next best thing! This October Hasbro... Lillard, Toys
Jumpstart reports that former Maniac Matthew Lillard appeared on the Sci Fi Channel's Star Wars Unauthorized program where he talked about playing with his action figures an hour before his senior pro... The Daily Bread
Well, I caved. Samcat and I are going to go see the 12:01 show of Star Wars tonight before going off to see it at a nice theater at 10. I'll post my thoughts tommorow... Chris stopped by DALnet today,...
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